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- From: mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Matt McIrvin)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: gravitons
- Message-ID: <mcirvin.727660047@husc.harvard.edu>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 23:47:27 GMT
- References: <C1550w.GG9@utdallas.edu> <1993Jan20.133840.9712@crpmks.uucp>
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- billb@crpmks.uucp (Bill Bochnik (Info Systems)) writes:
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- >In article <C1550w.GG9@utdallas.edu> nariani@utdallas.edu (Sushil Nariani) writes:
- >>If light cannot escape a blackhole, how can gravitons escape to pass on
- >>the message of blackhole gravity to the rest of the universe?
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- >'cause gravitons are a THEORY, and therefore can do whatever they like.
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- For that matter, so are black holes (though astronomers have increasingly
- probable candidates). We should, of course, keep in mind that most of
- these statements about black holes rely on the assumption that general
- relativity applies in regimes very different from those in which it
- has been precisely tested.
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- Matt McIrvin
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